For decades, immunology occupied a relatively modest place in medical textbooks. Today, however, it has become a central discipline that allows much of human disease to be reinterpreted. Initially studied in relation to infections, we now know that ...

What in 2009 seemed like an unrepeatable milestone—the case of Timothy Ray Brown, known as the Berlin Patient and the first documented case of HIV cure—is no longer an exception. Ten people worldwide have managed to eliminate the virus after ...

CaixaForum Madrid premieres the exhibition I Am Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria, featuring 158 objects from the British Museum collection that trace the life and legacy of Ashurbanipal (669 – c. 631 BC), the last great ruler of the ...

A study estimates a decrease of almost 16% in NO₂ levels between 2020 and 2022, while its effect was smaller in reducing PM10 and PM2.5 particles, which are less directly linked to traffic emissions.

Socioeconomic factors are widely recognized as potential modifiers of the relationship between air pollution and mortality, but the available evidence remains limited. In this context, a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health ...

A total of 100 researchers will carry out their projects in Spain and Portugal thanks to the 60 fellowships awarded under the INPhINIT doctoral programme and the 40 fellowships from the "la Caixa" Foundation’s Junior Leader postdoctoral ...

Investigators at the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), research center of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, together with Hospital del Mar Research and its research center (HMRIB), have published in Nature Scientific Reports the results of ...

Hypatia will lead the first mission made up exclusively of women scientists to take place at an Arctic research base, scheduled for the summer of 2027. The new crew is also the first to include Spanish researchers.

Households that report being more financially comfortable spend 18% more on private tutoring than those who say they struggle to make ends meet. This is one of the conclusions of the study Shadow Education in the Iberian Peninsula, published by the ...